Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[Ashburnham]

It's a barred Plymouth rock crossed with Aruacana -

 

[Chookydeb]

Bard is very hansome!

i wish we could have roosters here, i love watching the way they protect the girls, bring them treats etc - but the neighbours are too close and the noise would drive us and them nuts

 

[Chookydeb]

Does anybody know where I can get silver laced Wyandottes in the Sydney/central coast area?

 

[Ashburnham]

Todays hatch begins-

 

[satay]

Love your incubator, What are you hatching? I found a speckled hamburg with eggs in the bush yesterday so with all the fox dramas i have taken them and put them in the incubator.

Looks like our problem with animals being attacked is a fox. Still have not seen it but lost my beautiful female turkey "Cheap" on Friday morning. Found her down the back behind our property. From the injuries to her (she was dead). it seems that a fox did it. No more free ranging for the turkeys right now.
Also lost our beautiful Koala that has been living on our property since we moved here 5 years ago. He was so quiet. I think he must have died of old age though as he was under my window gone with no injuries to him. Bugger, Have seen one of his babies around lately so that is good. Sure is quiet without him calling for the girls at night now.

I think i may have found a white runner drake. Gotta go to Brissy tomorrow and am going to look at one then. Will post pics if i manage to get one.

Hope everyone had a great Easter..

 

[Ashburnham]

These are supposed to be Araucana rooster over Isa Brownish hens. Very low hatch rate as expected because I used very ypung and inexperienced roosters.

 

[Ashburnham]

Out in the brooder-

 

[Ashburnham]

The parents-

 

[Chookydeb]

thats a very pretty rooster! what delicate colours!

 

[Rachel96]

Hi everyone!

Ashburnham - I'm reasonably certain Bard isn't crossed with an Araucana - I'm sure someone would have mentioned something. Although I'm not sure he's a pure Rock, either. It doesn't really matter anyway as I'm planning on crossing him with some of my Araucanas (just until I can aquire an Araucana rooster from somewhere). I'd have preferred a dark barred so that the barring would come out better in the chicks, but I suppose it doesn't really matter so much as long as they lay for me!

Anyway, it's been a while since I was on. I was really busy over Easter and then I went off to camp on Monday. It was a youth camp for 10-12-year-olds, and I was a 'Bunkhouse Leader', which basically means that I was playing 'mum' to a bunch of ten-year-olds. It was my first time and very... interesting and educational. In some ways it was pretty difficult - I had one girl with ADHD and one girl with ODD (Oppositional Defiance Disorder) in my bunkhouse which made it a little tricky at times - but mostly it was pretty cool. I had the only bunkhouse who actually slept through the entire time they were meant to (about quarter to ten until seven) - no-one else's bunkhouse did that! The girl with ADHD was highly superstitious and was convinced that Bloody Mary was coming for her... it being Friday the 13th yesterday did not help matters in the least.

I had one girl in my bunkhouse who I already knew pretty well due to us being in the same homeschooling group. She got pretty excited about that, and I think she was sort of glad that she didn't have to explain homeschooling to me - every time she mentioned us being in the homeschooling group, the other children asked things like, "Homeschooling? Really? What's that? What's it like? Do you get to sleep in? Do you go to school in your pyjamas?", which annoyed both of us after a while. Anyway, this girl, I happened to already know, has a pet two-month-old RIR called Chookarloo or Chicky-Lou (I'm not sure which), who lives in her bedroom and sleeps with her in bed. I didn't have any homesick kids, but halfway through the week, this girl came down with 'chicken-sickness'. She's a quite girl but confessed to me yesterday that she had been crying herself to sleep for a few nights because she didn't have Chicky-Lou with her.

As for Easter, I was given two chocolate chickens, a packet of miniature speckled eggs, and a packet of almonds covered in chocolate and yoghurt which had been labelled as "Quail Eggs". Who can spot the real quail egg in the mix?